Identity
In our coverage of the long ‘battle’ to defend Ethnic Studies in Arizona we mostly focus in this blog on the legal and political dimensions of this epochal campaign for
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August 6, 2012 // 0 Comments
Men in Mexican military camps are forcing indigenous women into prostitution, according to a report emanating from the most recent session of the United Nations Committee on
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August 6, 2012 // 0 Comments
The cover of Colombia’s Semana magazine depicts a photo which should warm the cockles of any decent heart: the indigenous people of Cauca carrying an armed soldier, one of
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August 3, 2012 // 0 Comments
One of the consequences of the conquest and settlement of North and South America by Europeans was the displacement and destruction of native biological and cultural
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August 2, 2012 // 3 Comments
The Algonquins of Barriere Lake have gained an unexpected victory in their decades-long struggle to secure their land rights and protect areas of cultural, spiritual and
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August 2, 2012 // 0 Comments
*Mexikaresistance.com Note: It’s amusing how “sacrifice” is splashed across the headline of this article, yet the article itself tells a different story.
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August 1, 2012 // 0 Comments
On Thursday, August 2, 2012, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) will sit in on a Judiciary Committee hearing to—yet again—examine HR 997, the Official English Language Act, that
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August 1, 2012 // 0 Comments
What Americans just don’t get is that most people see history differently than they do. In order to break this down, every semester I show Robert Wuhl’s HBO special
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July 31, 2012 // 0 Comments
On July 11, the indigenous Nasa of Cauca, Colombia began confronting armed groups face to face and peacefully asking them to leave Nasa territories. They removed police
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July 31, 2012 // 0 Comments
Taking a page straight out of American history books, undocumented immigrants are launching a bus ride for freedom, across the Southern states, to focus attention on their
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July 30, 2012 // 0 Comments